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SUMMARY:On the Road: Patrick deWitt & Kathleen Boland
DESCRIPTION:Patrick deWitt (Dodge City) joins Kathleen Boland (Scavengers) for a discussion on their recent novels and the road trips that deliver their protagonists to uncertain futures. Both authors craft refreshing stories of family and country through witty descriptions\, remarkable characters\, and vast American landscapes. Moderated by author\, Julie Buntin (Famous Men)\, this panel promises a journey through complex family dynamics and the geography that divides them.   \nAbout Dodge City:\n\nFrom bestselling author Patrick deWitt comes Dodge City\, a rollicking novel about a young man on an amphetamine-fueled cross-country road trip\, fleeing the draft for the safe haven of Canada. \nIt’s1967 in Los Angeles and Lee Clarke has received his draft notice\, calling him up to fight in the Vietnam War. A straitlaced\, apolitical twenty-three-year-old from Concrete\, Washington\, Lee is studying at UCLA until a fistfight leads to his expulsion—and his removal from the deferment list. The draft notice forces him to make the first political decision of his life\, and though he’s happy in California and loves his girlfriend\, he will leave the country and head for the border. \nHe signs up at a drive-away car-delivery service\, chancing into a showroom-new Jaguar bound for the East Coast. Bringing only a single suitcase and a bag of amphetamines\, he makes his stimulated progress against the width of the country\, pining for the life he’s left behind and wondering what his decision will mean for his future. \nBut he is not just saying goodbye to the country of his birth. In four different towns strung out along the northern United States\, Lee visits each member of his immediate family: his father\, a World War II veteran in a state of degradation; his mother\, engaged in a buoyantly manic and never-ending performance with her shut-in sibling; his heartbroken\, misanthropic brother\, Harry; and finally his twin sister\, Grace\, a brash\, young nurse-in-training mired in romantic drama at a Manhattan psychiatric hospital. \nAn arresting portrait of a country in flux and a family in disarray\, Dodge City represents a signal achievement in an already illustrious body of work by the “twenty-first-century Mark Twain” (Slate). Witty\, moving\, and delightfully off-kilter\, Patrick deWitt’s sixth novel is a brilliant and raucous exploration of family\, country\, division\, and war\, from an elegant humorist who never shies from the stranger aspects of human behavior. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Scavengers:\n\nA rollicking debut novel about a cautious daughter and her eccentric\, estranged mother venturing west in search of buried treasure—and a way back to each other—before they run out of patience\, money\, and options. \nAfter being fired for taking an uncharacteristic risk at her commodities trading job\, Bea Macon sublets her New York apartment and books a one-way ticket to stay with her mother\, Christy\, a free spirit who has been living in Salt Lake City on Bea’s dime. \nUsually the responsible one\, Bea isn’t about to admit exactly why she’s suddenly decided to visit\, but she isn’t the only one keeping secrets: Christy has a man. She has a map. She has . . . a username on a forum devoted to unearthing $1 million in buried treasure that an antiquities dealer claims to have hidden somewhere in the western U.S.? \nBea is convinced this is just another one of her mother’s wild larks\, an elaborate way to refuse\, as she has for Bea’s entire life\, to finally grow up. But Christy believes she’s onto something—and she’s arranged a rendezvous in a rural town called Mercy with the guy she’s been obsessively trading theories with online to prove it. Out in the desert that one woman believes to be a promised land\, the other a wasteland\, they find themselves barreling toward a more high-stakes\, transformative escapade than either of them could have imagined. \nPopulated with unforgettable characters and set against one of the world’s most oddly enrapturing landscapes\, Scavengers is a funny and heartbreaking novel about old injuries\, new beginnings\, and the lengths to which we’ll go to find\, escape\, and reinvent ourselves.
URL:https://pdxbookfest.org/event/on-the-road/
LOCATION:Portland’5: Winningstad Theatre\, 1111 SW Broadway Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97205
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